circular cylinder
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcircularandcylinder
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circular
adjective
uk/ˈsɜː.kjə.lər/us/ˈsɝː.kjə.lɚ/
shaped like ...
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cylinder
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɪl.ɪn.dər/us/ˈsɪl.ɪn.dɚ/
a solid or hollow tube with long straight sides and two circular ends the same size, or an object shaped like this, often used as ...
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A classical example of vortex shedding develops when acircularcylinderis set into motion in the direction normal to its axis.
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Consider figure 1, where a wake cavity is sketched at the back of acircularcylinder.
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At large distances from thecircularcylinderthe total magnetic field consists of two parts.
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Thecircularcylinderis up/down symmetric, but = 0 and the singularity is of oscillatory type.
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In this limit the red cell assumes a shape that is very close to acircularcylinderwith a hemispherical cap.
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Numerical solutions for two-dimensional flow past acircularcylindercan be divided into two broad classes.
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A pattern recognition technique has been applied t o simultaneously sampled multipoint hot-wire anemometry data obtained in the far wake of acircularcylinder.
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Some results of an experimental investigation of forces associated with the subsonic flow of air around acircularcylinderin a wind tunnel are presented.
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The first method tried was that of a smallcircularcylindermomentarily introduced into the boundary layer through a hole in the plate.
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The wake behind acircularcylinderwas produced by lowering a tank of water (total mass about 800 kg) past a rigidly mounted cylinder.
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These effects have been illustrated by obtaining analytical solutions for a submergedcircularcylinderand a floating semicircular cylinder.
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The displacement effects for thecircularcylinderand the flat plate are worked out below as functions of the above-mentioned cut-off distance.
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The supersonic flow past a thin straightcircularcylinderis investigated.
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The curves of resistance against a function of the velocity for thecircularcylinder, the sphere, and a spindle-shaped body are also given.
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For a uniform bottom-mounted verticalcircularcylinder, the first-order diffraction and radiation potentials are available in closed forms.
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A considerable number of numerical computations have attempted to verify the existence of a singularity in the boundary-layer solution for thecircularcylinderproblem.
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Many assumptions break down for thecircularcylinderand its resistance curve is of theoretical interest only.
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Such a vortex can be generated by acircularcylinderrotating in a fluid of infinite extent initially at rest.
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They investigated among other configurations the flow behind an insulatedcircularcylinderaligned with the magnetic field in an insulated channel with mercury.
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An example of a submergedcircularcylinderis discussed.
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